<span class="searchmatch">rope</span> <span class="searchmatch">pulling</span> (uncountable) The game of tug of war, where people <span class="searchmatch">pull</span> on opposite ends of a <span class="searchmatch">rope</span>, trying to draw each other over a line on the ground....
“a <span class="searchmatch">pulling</span>; an instance of the action of <span class="searchmatch">pulling</span>”, from перетя́гивать (peretjágivatʹ, “to <span class="searchmatch">pull</span>”)) + кана́т (kanát, “<span class="searchmatch">rope</span>”), literally “<span class="searchmatch">rope</span>-<span class="searchmatch">pulling</span>; pulling...
machine <span class="searchmatch">rope</span>-maker ropemaker ropemaking ropeman ropemanship ropemate ropemaxx <span class="searchmatch">Rope</span> Monday <span class="searchmatch">rope</span> of sand <span class="searchmatch">rope</span> out <span class="searchmatch">rope</span>-over <span class="searchmatch">rope</span> porter <span class="searchmatch">rope</span> <span class="searchmatch">pulling</span> <span class="searchmatch">rope</span> pump...
<span class="searchmatch">pull</span>-in, and pullin' <span class="searchmatch">pull</span> in (third-person singular simple present <span class="searchmatch">pulls</span> in, present participle <span class="searchmatch">pulling</span> in, simple past and past participle <span class="searchmatch">pulled</span> in)...
(Friesland) Derived from rolpaal (“pole used to secure a <span class="searchmatch">rope</span> <span class="searchmatch">pulling</span> a track boat”). See also Dutch Low Saxon Rolpaol and West Frisian Rolpeal. (Zuid-Holland)...
fire <span class="searchmatch">pull</span> Gs <span class="searchmatch">pull</span> hitter <span class="searchmatch">pull</span>-in <span class="searchmatch">pulling</span> <span class="searchmatch">pulling</span> power <span class="searchmatch">pulling</span> the plug <span class="searchmatch">pull</span> in one's horns <span class="searchmatch">pull</span> into <span class="searchmatch">pull</span> my finger <span class="searchmatch">pull</span>-off <span class="searchmatch">pull</span>-off cap <span class="searchmatch">pull</span> on <span class="searchmatch">pull</span>-on...
yeave ho yeave-ho An exclamation used when <span class="searchmatch">pulling</span>, especially by sailors while <span class="searchmatch">pulling</span> on a <span class="searchmatch">rope</span>. Synonym: heave-ho...
figuratively or idiomatically: see <span class="searchmatch">pull</span>, apart. (intransitive) To become separated as a result of <span class="searchmatch">pulling</span>. A frayed <span class="searchmatch">rope</span> will <span class="searchmatch">pull</span> apart under tension. (transitive)...
rail savers) (surfing) A piece of fabric at the point where the leg <span class="searchmatch">rope</span> is attached to the surfboard, to protect the rail when the <span class="searchmatch">rope</span> is <span class="searchmatch">pulled</span> taut....
hobble-<span class="searchmatch">rope</span>, and another holding the tail, at a given signal all <span class="searchmatch">pull</span> , the hobble-<span class="searchmatch">rope</span> being drawn vigorously forward or outward ( Fig 40), the tail <span class="searchmatch">pulled</span>...